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A Murder of Knights
A Fantasy Short Story by Tim Akers
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Sword & Sorcery,
- Space Fantasy,
- Eldritch Horror,
- Dying Earth,
- Monster Hunting
This book is for you if you're into...
- Knights wielding both dark magic and high technology
- Eldritch horrors lurking in dying worlds where humanity is almost myth
- Quests where loyalty to mysterious gods comes at a terrible price
A story in the vein of Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance, A Murder of Knights digs deeply in the rich traditions of Sword & Sorcery and Space Fantasy to produce a dark tale of eldritch horror and knightly honor, in a world so far in the future that humanity has forgotten itself.
The sun has died, the stars fade, and the world has fallen to darkness. But for the Raven Knights of the Oracle at Murdermont, their duty never dies.
Two of their number have been sent to the village of Halfspire, to investigate the broken tower at the center of town, to find and fight and kill the Kimera that is haunting the shadows.
What they find is a corruption that could spell their own end. They must face the horrors of the Kimera as well as the fickle vengeance of their all-seeing god if they're going to survive, in this tale of dark magic, high technology, and a humanity so changed as to be unrecognizable.
This story originally appeared in the anthology Sword and Planet, by Baen Books.
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